Literary notes about dream (AI summary)
The word "dream" in literature is a chameleon-like term, shifting between a metaphor for aspiration and ambition and a symbol of the unconscious or mystical realms. At times, it represents a vision pursued with relentless drive and the culmination of a life's work ([1], [2]), while in other moments it denotes an ephemeral state that blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion ([3], [4]). It can serve as a vessel for psychological insight and symbolic communication, as seen in analyses of condensed manifest and latent content ([5], [6]), or be rendered simply as the surreal experience of a waking soul ([7], [8]).
- This is the time of his deepest dream, and upon this dream and its guarding depends the final realization of his life's work.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke - It is the dream of my whole life to be Honourable Pesca, M.P.!"
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - Enough, however—the world grew older, and the dream vanished.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - I began to think it must be all a dream, and that I was really asleep in bed, and should wake up in a minute, and be told it was past ten.
— from Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome - But their order is quite different from that which we remember from the manifest content of the dream.
— from Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud - If the dream is a wish-fulfillment, painful experiences ought to be impossible in the dream; in that the lay-critics apparently are right.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - and his answer was, “The dream of a waking man.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius - I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
